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Paul Fontaine, Hells Angels leader 41, guilty of the murder of Pierre Rondeau.

Paul Fontaine, 41, guilty of the murder of Pierre Rondeau. On Sept. 8, 1997, the provincial prison guard was shot while behind the wheel of an inmate transport bus as he approached the Riviere des Prairies detention centre. His partner Robert Corriveau was not injured in the ambush by Fontaine was also convicted of attempted murder as well.In this and other previous trials, Stephane Gagne, the other gunman in the ambush, testified that the murder and an earlier one the same year were carried out on the orders of Maurice Boucher, a Hells Angels leader. Boucher was convicted of the murders in 2002.
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